The land of Dishearten, where dreams deflate, ambition sours, and will loses way while chasing why. If you're following your passion, chances are you've spent some time in this underworld.
I have a go-to for when I find myself here. It may seem a little silly, but it always brings me a smile and reminds me that impossible is only possible with the I'm. Im+possible=impossible. As soon as I change my mind, and go back to believing, all-to-everything is available to become true.
Pure Imagination:
Come with me and you'll beIn a world of pure imagination
Take a look and you'll see
Into your imagination
We'll begin with a spin
Trav'ling in the world of my creation
What we'll see will defy
Explanation
If you want to view paradise
Simply look around and view it
Anything you want to, do it
Want to change the world, there's nothing to it
There is no life I know
To compare with pure imagination
Living there, you'll be free
If you truly wish to be
If you want to view paradise
Simply look around and view it
Anything you want to, do it
Want to change the world, there's nothing to it
There is no life I know
To compare with pure imagination
Living there, you'll be free
If you truly wish to be
I don't know if I've ever had such a place to retreat to...although...whenever I get to the point of exasperation with my own circumstance, I often will watch a movie that moves me. It's usually Blade Runner or The Elephant Man or Highlander - anything that's guaranteed to make me cry. Whether it be the scene at the end of Blade Runner when Rutger Hauer's character rescues Harrison Ford from the edge of a skyscraper, then sits down and delivers a beautiful monologue about the frailties of life before dying. The scene in the Elephant Man when Merrick is cornered in the train station and implores his pursuers "I am not an animal - I am a human being". The scene in Highlander when Lambert's McLeod nurses his elderly wife to her death while he remains a young "immortal". She asks him to light a candle for her and remember her on her birthday.
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That sounds like a smart go-to mental haven to me, Dean. As my Mother-in-law says, crying is a way to get it out. I think it's cathartic and healing to be able to release pent up emotions. And great movies or books, grand stories, are perfect ways to seek a little relief.
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